[Some of] All The News That's Fit To Print

Paris lost its bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics to London. Paris should have won out over London, don't you think? Didn't the selection committee understand that French society, culture and organizational skills far surpass the British? By choosing London the visiting delegations and fans are going to miss out on France's overpriced wine, language-centric snobbish waiters, frequent nationwide labor strikes, over-rated cuisine, a history-denying failing foreign policy, and of course France is the motherland of turned-up-noses. It's sad to think that our basketball players from the Bronx, wrestlers from rural Nebraska, and swimmers from Toledo will miss the experience of food made for anorexic fashion models, wine inferior to Californian, and waiters who won't accept "see view play". They'll also miss federal train workers striking for 10 weeks paid annual vacation. They'll miss France's progressive culture, a culture ungrateful to the hundreds of thousand of English speaking men and women who freed Frenchie from brutal dictators twice in the last century. You know if it weren't for the English-speaking Brits, Yanks, and Canucks Shirac would be eating sauerkraut and goose stepping between forced labor camps. But, today the French don't really need a reasonable stance on tyrants. After all, the English-speaking peoples will send their young men and women to Frenchie's rescue if his sorry defenses collapse again. Or will we?

During Chirac's lifetime how many healthy British men and women gave their last breath liberating French soil? Yet, here's what French President Jacques Chirac said last weekend to the laughing successors of Hitler and Stalin: (from BBC http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4649007.stm and ITN World News http://www.itn.co.uk/news/1869604.html)

"The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow," Mr Chirac quipped, according to the paper, prompting laughter from Mr Schroeder and Mr Putin.

According to the paper Mr Chirac also took a snipe at British food, saying: "You can't trust people who cook as badly as that. After Finland, it's the country with the worst food."